The Ascent of John Company: From Traders to Rulers (1756-1787)

ISBN-13: 9781138095380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 358 str.

Cheema, G. S. (University of Cyprus)

Opis

This book is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality, tempered to some extent by blatant lies, corruption and intrigue. The romanticization of the empire was a phenomenon of the later Victorian period. Nostalgia for the Raj still lingers among some circles. For such people this volume will be a useful corrective; the past always seems better than the contentious present. Even for others, who may not see the past through rose tinted glasses, this book will help to place things in perspective.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction, 2. The Background: Bengal Before Plassey, 3. Plassey and The Fall, 4. The Puppets and The Puppeteers, 5. The Plight of Nawab Ali Jah, 6. The Tragedy of Mir Qasim, Nawab Ali Jah, 7. Amongst False Friends, 8. The Bengal Mutinies, 9. Buxar and Thereafter, 10. Clive Sets Things in Order, 11. The Fading of The Nizamat, 12. The Company Bahadur’s Rule, 13. The Entry of Warren Hastings　–　A Prelude, 14. Hastings in Bengal　–　The First Casualties, 15. Hastings and His Council, 16. Nand Kumar’s Attack, 17. The Counter-Attack, 18. Sir Elijah’s Court in India, 19. Warren Hastings and Munny Begum, 20. The Destruction of Chait Singh, 21. The Turn of The Begums, 22. The Hastings Return Home, 23. The Nabob’s Life in India, 24. Shaking The Pagoda Tree 25. Epilogue

O autorze

G.S. Cheema is a former civil servant and writes mainly on historical subjects. His first book, on the later Mughals, The Forgotten Mughals, came out in 2002. This was followed by Our History, Their History (2012), and A Memoir of the Mughal Empire (2014), the last being a translation of Jean Law de Lauriston's Memoire sur quelques Affaires de l'Empire Mogol. He lives in Chandigarh.